# Announcing Flower Datasets 0.3.0

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**Created:** [July 26, 2024, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-datasets-0-3-0/278 "2024-07-26T11:34:48Z")\
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The Flower Team is excited to announce the release of Flower Datasets 0.3.0!

Flower Datasets (flwr-datasets) is a library that quickly and easily creates datasets for federated learning, federated evaluation, and federated analytics. It was created by the Flower Labs team that also created Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework.

### What’s new?

- **New Partitioning Schemes** :
  - Add pathological partitioner ([#3623](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3623))
  - Add distribution partitioner ([#3791](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3791))

- **New Dataset integration tests and tests improvements** :
  - Add tests for usps dataset ([#3832](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3832))
  - Add tests for mnist-m dataset ([#3834](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3834))
  - Add tests for femnist dataset ([#3840](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3840))
  - Add tests for uci-mushrooms dataset ([#3841](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3841))
  - Add function to perform partial download of dataset for tests ([#3860](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3860))
  - Add tests for ucf101 dataset ([#3842](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3842))
  - Add tests for ambient acoustic context ([#3843](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3843))
  - Add ted-lium dataset to the tested set ([#3844](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3844))
  - Update tests for ted lium dataset ([#3868](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3868))

- **Docs Improvements**
  - Fix docs examples formatting ([#3702](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3702))
  - Change format of Flower Datasets quickstart tutorial ([#3854](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3854))
  - Add how to use partitioner docs ([#3871](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3871))
  - Add details for new datasets ([#3879](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3879))

### Incompatible changes

None